Able Software R2V for Windows, is a powerful
raster to vector conversion software at a reasonable price. R2V
combines the power of intelligent automatic vectorizing
technology with an easy-to-use, menu-driven, graphical user
interface in the Microsoft Windows environment. The
software converts scanned maps or images to vector formats for
mapping, geographic information systems (GIS), CAD, and scientific
computing applications. The system is easy to use and can be
learned quickly by users with any level of technical background.

R2V provides an easy and complete solution to digitize vector
data from image sources, such as scanned maps and drawings,
aerial photos, and satellite imagery.

For many images, the entire raster to vector
conversion process is fully automatic and needs no human
intervention. You display the scanned image on screen and you
select the vectorization command. That is all it takes! All the
lines are extracted in seconds and displayed right on top of the
image for you to verify and edit. Powerful editing and processing
functions are provided to edit, geo-reference, and label your
data. R2V has all the tools to get a perfect set of vector data
faster and easier than any other methods.

With R2V, you can forget about slow and inaccurate hand
tracing on a digitizing tablet, simply scan your map or drawing
and let R2V vectorize it automatically, at a high accuracy level.
A typical contour or parcel map scanned at 200 DPI (dots/inch) as black and
white or grayscale can be vectorized in seconds or minutes
on a Pentium PC.

Original contour map

The image is vectorized using R2V's fully automatic
vectorization function. A 3D DEM is also created from the labeled
contour lines and displayed using R2V's 3D functions.

We know editing for both raster images and vector data is
extremely important to you, so we have made the effort to build
easy to use and intelligent editors for you to handle all data
types in one display window, including lines, points, polygons,
text labels, image pixels, and control points. With R2V, you can
automatically vectorize maps or drawings, perform quick heads-up
digitizing and geo-referencing of aerial photos or satellite imagery, and update your existing vector data sets using
the latest aerial photos
or other images.

You have some color maps? No problem. Scan them in color and R2V
will classify the colors and vectorize each color separately;
Then label the lines using the semi-automatic vector labeling
tools.

Whether your maps are contours, parcels, transportation, or CAD drawings, or
if you have hundreds or thousands of them, R2V is
the right tool for you because it is being used all over the
world for all types of large and small digitizing projects. Our
users have been impressed by how easy and how fast the digitizing
job has become and the prompt technical support we have provided.

And what about
remote sensing? SPOT satellite image format is supported. Natural
source images, such as aerial photos and color satellite images,
can be automatically classified or segmented to generate region
or boundary maps, all in R2V. Advanced image processing functions
include image warp or registration, image mosaic, color
classification and separation, and many more to handle different
types of images.

If you need to update your existing vector data set using the
latest satellite image or other source, simply load the image
into R2V and import your vector data set. With R2V's powerful
editing functions, you can easily update your data, label your data, and
geo-reference your data so your data is almost immediately ready for use.

If you provide digitizing or data conversion services to your
clients, R2V will help you to get the job done quicker and better
than manual tracing or other poor quality conversion programs.
Not only does R2V have the best fully automatic and semi-automatic
tracing functions, but all the tools you can use to edit
both raster and vector data, assign labels, geo-reference, and create a 3D display of your data.

Have too many maps or drawings to convert? R2V's batch
processing function is the solution for you. First write your
image and vector processing script using R2V's script editor, and
then list all your images. Whether you have 50 or 500 of them,
one command will process them all, with all the pre-processing and
post-processing steps applied and the vector data saved.

Fully automatic vectorization. One command will
vectorize your scanned map in seconds or minutes
at high quality. Batch function allows
vectorizing a number of maps without any user
intervention. Write your own batch script to
customize the processing steps for the images
before vectorization and for vector line processing
after the vectorization.

Interactive line tracing. You select two points
on the image and let R2V trace the line for you.
Easy, accurate and intelligent! For complex maps
or drawings, use the interactive tracing to
vectorize lines selectively. Or use the multiple
line tracing function to vectorize a group of
lines with only two clicks.

Manual on-screen heads-up digitizing. With R2V's
easy to use vector editor, you simply draw the
lines with your image as the backdrop, zoom in
and out, and quickly create the data set for your
specific applications

Complete Vector Editing: A complete on-screen
vector editor is provided using the image as a backdrop.
Lines can be created, moved, joined, split, removed,
colored, and labeled. Closed polygons are formed easily
from existing lines with the polygon editing tool.

Vector Labeling and Contour Map Digitizing: Lines
can be labeled with different ID values which are saved
as attributes when exporting to a mapping or GIS package.
Semi-automatic contour line labeling is supported for
quick elevation assignments of contour lines

Multiple Layers: Use R2V's layer manager to define
as many layers as needed to organize vectorized data into
layers. Layers created in R2V are fully compatible with
the export vector file formats that support multi-layer
structure. With multiple layers defined, vector data can
be processed, edited, and displayed by layer and moved
between layers. Layers can be turned on, off, or locked
for flexible vector data editing and handling.

Point Feature Digitizing: Complete support for
digitizing of point features. Points can be created,
moved and labeled. Point data can be exported to all the
vector file formats supported.

Automatic Polygon Layer Creation: Create polygon
layers automatically from vectorized lines with just one
command. The closed polygons can then be edited, and labeled
using R2V's line editor. Polygons can be displayed in
fill mode with a user defined hatch pattern and color for
the layer.

Geo-Referencing Using GeoTIFF or Control Points: Vector
data can be geo-coded or geo-referenced to a real world
coordinate system (e.g., UTM, Latitude/Longitude) using GeoTIFF, user selected control points or a World file
(TFW).
Raster images can be geo-referenced as well with a
generated World file supported by ESRI's Arc/Info, ArcView, or TAB file by MapInfo. Image rubber sheeting
functions allow geometric correction or registration of
an image to a new coordinate system. R2V supports both Bi-linear and Delaunay triangulation methods for
geometric transformation. Geo-referenced raster images can
be saved in GeoTIFF format, and are fully compatible with other
packages that support GeoTIFF.

Conversion between Map Projection Systems: R2V supports
conversion between UTM coordinate systems, latitude/longitude, State Plane
NAD27 and State Plane NAD83 systems. You can convert one point or an
entire set of control points automatically.

Automatic Text Detection and Recognition (OCR):
Detects and recognizes text of different fonts, sizes, and
languages automatically. Flexible editor for easy removal and
manipulation. Other irregular intersection symbols can be detected and
corrected as well.

Merge Multiple Maps: Use R2V to vectorize maps
separately and then merge them into one set by specifying
proper control points. The merged vector data set can
then be edited within R2V and treated as a single map.

Flexible Region of Interest for Vectorization and
Image Processing: R2V supports regions of
interest in the form of circles, rectangles, free form
polygons, and their combinations for vectorization and
image cropping. 3D Display With Image Draping: Create a 3D data set
automatically from your labeled line data and display
them using R2V's advanced 3D display and animation
function. View your data with image draping in 3D at any
angle and distance. Supports 3D DEM (compatible USGS DEM
format) and Grid formats for both input and output. 3D models can be
exported to DXF, VRML, and XYZ formats. Simply download a VRML plug-in for
your web browser and then click here to see an examplePowerful Image Processing: Vertical and horizontal
flip, transpose, rotate, remove dark background, edge
detection, image resample, crop a region, smoothing,
segmentation, image mosaic, fusion, warping, and negate.
Both supervised and unsupervised classification are built
in to help process aerial photos or satellite imagery
that are in color. Color separation, grayscale image
enhancement, and image type conversions can all be done
using R2V.

Image Mosaic:
R2V's Image mosaic command makes it easy to create a
mosaic image from a series of sub-sections. Simply start by selecting
the Image/Mosaic option, and specify the layout matrix and image
file names. The image mosaic will be created in a few
seconds. Images with overlapped borders are correlated to create
seamless image mosaic.Image Merge and Overlay: The image merge function allows you to combine
multiple images interactively to create image overlays or mosaics.

Colorize Grayscale Images using a
Low Resolution Color Image:R2V's image
fusion technology provides a powerful way to colorize a
high resolution grayscale image using color information
from a low resolution multi-spectral image. If you need
to interpret a grayscale image at a higher accuracy,
colorizing the image gives you the correct information
about water, shadow, and vegetation, instead of just dark
pixels